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Loop execution process (Python vs C)


Raktim

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Sir, I wrote the same code on Python and C. But the same code give two different result...my C code is...

for (i=0;i<10;i++)
  continue;
printf ("%d",i);

and the my python code is...

for i in range (0,10):
    continue
print (i)

The c code give 10 and python give 9 as result. So, what is loop execution process...what is the difference between loop execution process between Python and C?

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18 hours ago, justsomeguy said:

Range just returns a list of numbers from min to (max - 1).  Or, 0 through 9.  So, i is each number from 0 through 9.  You're not telling it to keep adding 1 to i, you're just telling it to loop for each number from 0 through 9.

okay, So, i make a little change to my python code...

for i in range (0,10):
   print(i)
print ("value of i after exit from loop",i)

The loop will execute until the condition became FALSE. So, the loop will execute from 0 to (10-1) mean 0 to 9 and condition become FALSE when i become 10...(10<10-->False)...am i right? Let me to show that what i thinking...

First it print,

Loop Body (value of i)        Increment (i=i+1)        Condition (i<10)              Status (T/F)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

              0                                           1                                    1<10                              TRUE

              1                                           2                                    2<10                              TRUE   

              2                                           3                                    3<10                              TRUE  

              3                                           4                                    4<10                              TRUE

              4                                           5                                    5<10                               TRUE

              5                                           6                                    6<10                               TRUE

              6                                           7                                     7<10                               TRUE

              7                                           8                                     8<10                               TRUE

              8                                           9                                     9<10                               TRUE

              9                                           10                                   10<10                             FALSE  

So, the last value of i became 10 but when i print it show 9...Why? The process is also follows by C, am i right? But in the case of C it shows the result is 10...Why?   

 

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19 hours ago, justsomeguy said:

Range just returns a list of numbers from min to (max - 1).  Or, 0 through 9.  So, i is each number from 0 through 9.  You're not telling it to keep adding 1 to i, you're just telling it to loop for each number from 0 through 9.

Sir, Range() concept is somewhat difference than  For Loop in C? or Same?

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The loop will execute until the condition became FALSE. So, the loop will execute from 0 to (10-1) mean 0 to 9 and condition become FALSE when i become 10...(10<10-->False)...am i right?

No, you're not right.  There is no condition, and there is no increment.  It is looping through members of a set.  In this case, the set is the set of integers from 0 through 9.  Maybe it will help you understand if you look at it in array syntax instead of using the range function:

for i in [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]

Looking at that, why would i ever be 10?  Look at another example:

for i in ["A", 3, 9, "Cat", 4, 100]

Would you look at that, and say that after the loop i is going to be 101?  Because that doesn't make sense.  i is not going to be set to a value that is not in the set.  The only thing that range does is return an array of numbers within a range.  There is no condition in the loop, and there is no increment (other than changing an internal array pointer to point to the next element in the array).

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11 hours ago, justsomeguy said:

 

 

No, you're not right.  There is no condition, and there is no increment.  It is looping through members of a set.  In this case, the set is the set of integers from 0 through 9.  Maybe it will help you understand if you look at it in array syntax instead of using the range function:

 


for i in [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]

 

Looking at that, why would i ever be 10?  Look at another example:

 


for i in ["A", 3, 9, "Cat", 4, 100]

 

Would you look at that, and say that after the loop i is going to be 101?  Because that doesn't make sense.  i is not going to be set to a value that is not in the set.  The only thing that range does is return an array of numbers within a range.  There is no condition in the loop, and there is no increment (other than changing an internal array pointer to point to the next element in the array).

Okay sir , thanks for your helping hand

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